There have been many many occasions of flighting up with FNG's over the years. Afterwards many have become in game friends and have continued to flight. Here are a few problems with today's game and flighting with an FNG. (Although I still do) I often pick some FNG from a battle and ask if they want to flight. (Until the chat sever got FUBAR)

Spectate mode is absolute [edited]now. How can anyone learn from this? seriously?!? Nobody can learn from this jacked up version of spectate mode. It's pitiful!

Chat server is still jacked up. How can you possibly communicate with a player that needs help in the game?

Once you flight up, the bots seem to become super human bot and makes it difficult to educate FNG's. (Still doable but is challenging)

I'd love to help new players, however I only fly on weekends usually varying from 12PM-12AM.

Biggest problem though is chat being down. If chat was up then it could prove a massive boon to helping out some of the rookies as I could take them under my wing if they wanted to learn, however, with no way to properly chat, people are highly anti-social including me. One of my friends spent about 3 days trying to arrange a flight with a new player, it was an organizational nightmare without chat being up and the constant need to relog to refresh your messages.

I sincerely hope they get chat back online soon, however at this rate it seems to be coming Soon™.

chat in battle has always been a horrible way to convey information, because neither pilot really has time to type

i'll assumed that wowp's own in-game voice comm is working... has anyone tried it lately?

volunteering pilots and new pilots both, would you check that your headset works with that, please... since there's no free teamspeak channels

(are there free teamspeak channels?)

someone mentioned discord, i have it but it does seem much more complex than what is needed here?

In-game voice chat is static-ridden, prone to latency issues, and is generally a very low quality aspect of the game, just as it is in Tanks and Warships. Third party solution for voice chatting needs is still the only way to go here.

Unfortunately, that discourages communication with someone you just met in battle, but with some patience Dischord can work with sharing links and open servers.

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Unfortunately, that discourages communication with someone you just met in battle, but with some patience Discord can work with sharing links and open servers.

This has pretty much been the way to go, if somebody wants to chat then you send them a link to a Discord server you're on, it has been the only real way I've been able to chat with fellow pilots, a third party solution. However it can work out pretty well, since you don't have to both be logged-in to WoWp to chat and you can bicker about plane balance and form new strategies without both needing to be in-game and constantly logging in and out of the game to update chat messages.

Either way it's kind of sad that even to properly form a flight you pretty much need to be using a third party solution unless you're feeling lucky and catch somebody up for a flight while they're online by randomly sending an invite.

...then you got that kind of people who refuse to use voice and don't want to be involved in any third-party solution...

Guess that's how I learned to type inflight and read all the details on popups that is hardly visible...

WoWP makes a great jousting game...especially with the 262 and people busy in furballs...
I am deaf, silent, and fly with unrealistic controls. Do not count on me to carry - my back's already broken from overweight.

WoWP makes a great jousting game...especially with the 262 and people busy in furballs...
I am deaf, silent, and fly with unrealistic controls. Do not count on me to carry - my back's already broken from overweight.